{"id":1040065,"date":"2026-10-01T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040065"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:18:34","slug":"mobile-retailers-association-calls-off-no-upi-day-protest-on-oct-2-after-govt-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/mobile-retailers-association-calls-off-no-upi-day-protest-on-oct-2-after-govt-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile retailers association calls off &#8216;No UPI Day&#8217; protest on Oct 2 after govt assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) and the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF) on Wednesday called off their proposed \u2018No UPI Day\u2019 protest on October 2, after a trade delegation met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, officials said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The mobile retailers association had earlier announced the &#8216;No UPI Day&#8217; protest on October 2 against the proposed 0.4 per cent Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, saying the charge would put additional burden on small retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) and the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF) on Wednesday called off their proposed \u2018No UPI Day\u2019 protest on October 2, after a trade delegation met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, officials said on Wednesday. The mobile retailers association had earlier announced the &#8216;No UPI Day&#8217; protest on October 2 against the proposed 0.4 per cent Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, saying the charge would put additional burden on small retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040072,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040065\/revisions\/1040072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}